Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) blends Documentary elements. Top cast includes Werner Herzog, Gennady Soloviev, and Anatoly Blumei. The plot follows a central conflict that grows in scope as the film progresses.

Actor: Werner Herzog

In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions.